US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 4 for "Portable network interfaces for authentication and license enforcement" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,985, issued on March 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Portable network interfaces for authentication and license enforcement" was invented by Christopher Richard Jacques de Kadt (Cape Town, South Africa) and James Alfred Gordon Greenfield (Cape Town, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for portable network interfaces to manage authentication and license enforcement. A system may include a plurality of resource instances including a producer instance configured to implement a network-accessible service, and an authentication coordinator. The coordinator may assign an interface recor...